† osculateadj.
Zoology. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
Having an osculum or oscula (osculum n. 3).
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [adjective] > having an aperture
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1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Osculatus, having well marked little mouths or suckers, as the Tænia osculata: osculate.
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osculatev.
/ˈɒskjᵿleɪt/, U.S. /ˈɑskjəˌleɪt/ 1. transitive. To kiss (a person or thing), to salute with contact of the lips. Also intransitive: to kiss. Now archaic or humorous.
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the mind > emotion > love > kiss > give or indulge in kisses [verb]
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Osculate, to kiss, to love heartily, to imbrace.
1873 St. Paul's Mag. Mar. 259 Professedly prudish..they..mutter, nod, osculate, prink, quiz.
1889 Harper's Mag. Jan. 325/1 Who was she? Whither bound? thought I; And who will be the mortal waiting In some grim station, by-and-by, To greet her, wildly osculating?
1987 P. Crowther in S. J. Perelman Don't tread on Me Introd. p. xxv When I asked him once why his hands were so cold he said, ‘They've been insufficiently osculated.’
2002 Opera Canada (Nexis) Sept. 15 Surely the artists are not expected to stand there osculating for two minutes!
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the world > space > distance > nearness > be near to [verb (transitive)] > place near > place in contact
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1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. ii. 46 The two main Branches of the Lobes both meeting, and being osculated together, are thus dispos'd into one round Trunk.
3. Geometry.
a. transitive. Of a curve or surface: to touch (another curve or surface) so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact. Also used analogously of spaces of higher dimension.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > make into a curve [verb (transitive)] > interact
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Osculum A Circle described on the Point C, as a Centre..with the Radius of the Evolute M C, is said to osculate, kiss, the Curve described by Evolution in M; which Point M is call'd by the Inventor Huygens, the Osculum of the Curve.
1896 S. L. Loney Elements Coordinate Geom. (ed. 2) §428 Contact of the third order is..all that two conics can have, and then they are said to osculate one another... In general one curve osculates another when it has the highest possible order of contact with the second curve.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 548/1 The circle is then said to ‘osculate’ the curve, or to have ‘contact of the second order’ with it at P.
1983 Jrnl. Differential Geom. 18 563 In this paper we give necessary and sufficient conditions for d pieces of hypersurface to be osculated to a fixed order by an algebraic hypersurface of degree d.
b. intransitive. Of two curves, two surfaces, or a curve and a surface: to touch so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > surface > touch [verb (intransitive)]
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > interact [verb (intransitive)]
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1841 J. R. Young Math Diss. ii. 52 Two surfaces osculate at a point when they have a common indicatrix there.
1885 C. Leudesdorf tr. L. Cremona Elements Projective Geom. 189 Three of the four points of intersection of the conics lie indefinitely near to one another, and may be said to coincide in the point A; and the conics are said to osculate at the point A.
1914 X. F. R. Moulton Introd. Celestial Mech. (ed. 2) ix. 322 This conic is said to osculate with the actual orbit at the point of contact.
1989 E. J. Borowski & J. M. Borwein Dict. Math. 427 Osculation or tacnode, a point at which two branches of a curve osculate.
4.
a. intransitive. To come into close contact or union; to connect, join. Now rare.
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the world > space > distance > nearness > be near to [verb (transitive)] > be in contact with
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1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 281 You may..cause..the Blood-Vessels to osculate, or join together, so that the Wound may be closed in its whole Length.
1849 F. W. Newman Soul vi. 209 Though in their higher development the Sciences osculate, yet (to the human mind) their bases are quite independent.
1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) IV. xxiii. 478 Osculating in separate points with the deeper impulses of the age.
1866 Sat. Rev. 21 Apr. 479/2 To show how these countries crossed, osculated, and reacted upon each other.
1906 Jrnl. Philos. 3 226 All through this part of the process there existed a permanent and slightly unagreeable feeling above the varying feelings continually osculating or blending with the incoming intellectual presentations.
1987 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 1 Mar. x. 24/5 The Caribbean and the Atlantic osculate in the Windward Passage twixt Cabo Maisi, Cuba, and Mole-St.-Nicholas at Cape-a-Foux, Haiti.
b. intransitive. Biology. To be connected by an intermediate taxon. Cf. osculant adj. 1. Now historical.
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1870 [implied in: Amer. Naturalist 4 241 That grasses..vary much as other plants do, is plain from the multitude of osculating forms. (at osculating adj.)].
1979 Nature 13 Dec. 759/2 Where the circles touched, species of different genera osculated with each other.
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